We all know that eating a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol is bad for us, right? Well that story that we’ve all been told for decades may be far from the truth. Medical researchers at Vanderbilt University...
Q. A few years ago, I switched from regular soda to diet soda--and lost 12 pounds. My husband tells me diet soda is bad for me, but isn't it better than the sugary stuff?
A. It's great that you stopped...
For most people, paying attention to your gut means following your intuition and letting your informed self let you know if there are red flags you need to mind. However, the idea of following or paying attention to your...
Who doesn’t love a fresh fruit bowl or a Mesclun summer salad sprinkled with Parmesan and lemon? In the heat of the season, these choices seem to be exactly what we are craving. Although it is recommended that we...
Canny as it is, the brain deploys a number of ways to preserve its functions over time. Brain cells turn out a variety of homegrown neurotrophic factors to maintain integrity. Behavioral actions such as intellectual challenges and physical activity...
Soon after Daphne Miller, M.D., began practicing medicine in San Francisco, Calif., she realized that so many of her patients' woes--heart disease, diabetes, cancer--could be traced back to a poor diet. But she often wondered: What foods could prevent...
Look in almost any spice cabinet or on a kitchen table and you will likely see black pepper. Most of us don’t think anything about sprinkling a little bit of this strong spice on our dinner, but we rarely...
If you have high cholesterol, you're certainly not alone; nearly half of all American adults have high cholesterol. Not all cholesterol is bad, though. Your body makes its own and uses it for important functions, such as producing cells...
A leaky gut can cause you to feel countless unpleasant symptoms, but the condition itself seems to fly under the radar given the fact that the mainstream media does little to recognize it as a serious problem.
Alternative health practitioners...
The wisdom of colonoscopy screening seems obvious. The test enables a physician to examine the lining of the entire colon and to remove small, potentially precancerous growths called polyps during the exam. As a result, it has the potential...
